Author: oldwhittingtonops

Further to my post re Samuel Hinde yesterday. As I mentioned he owned many pieces of land and wooded areas in Whittington in mid 1700. I have now been joined by my friend and fellow researcher Elizabeth Pemberton in trying to plot on old maps (both working from our separate homes !) where these pieces of land actually were.Names like Far Dam Close, Piper Hole, Hollow Meadow, Near Brown Holme and many more have disappeared from recent maps.It is difficult to imagine that the whole area around Whittington had very few houses at this time. However, the good thing is that the two rivers appear on all of the maps and are a good starting point to work from.

I am currently researching a gentleman called Samuel Hinde who lived in Old Whittington mid 1700’s until his death in 1809. He owned much of the area on Newbridge Lane down towards the canal, including the Foxley Oaks area, many other pieces of land in Whittington and it is not a name I was familiar with. Imagine my surprise yesterday when I visited the churchyard at Old Whittington to look for the Hinde graves and bumped into two ladies who were looking for the same graves. They are descendants of Samuel Hinde and we were able to exchange information about him. It was a coincidence that we should all have chosen the same time to visit the churchyard.We found the graves and I hope to be able to post more information about Samuel Hinde and Foxley Oaks in the next week or so.

I came across this article in the Sheffield Independent dated 29th March 1845. There is a lot of reading, it is an interesting but tragic story with an unexpected end

This piece taken from the Sheffield Daily Telegraph 15 September 1925, sounds as though it was only luck that stopped the event turning into something more tragic. What is amusing is that the author of the piece notes that the parties are Welsh, which he seems to think explains their behaviour!

Further to my recent post on the rebuilding of the Bulls Head I have found this drawing of the original Bulls Head which was posted in Old Chesterfield Pics in 2017 by Alan Taylor.

There was a newspaper entry in the Derbyshire Times Chesterfield Herald on 17th January 1903 in the ‘Notes by the Way’ section which gives interesting details regarding some James II coins and human bones which were found at the site when the new Bulls Head was built.

The Sheffield Independent 23 September 1901 ran an article on the Bulls Head Old Whittington re plans passed to have it pulled down and re-erected further from the High Street. The photo on the left from Picture the past is supposed to be circa 1900 as it looks very similar to the up to date photo of the Bulls Head then I assume it must be later than 1900. Has anyone any photos of the original Bulls Head in their family albums? It would be interesting to see what it looked like and if it was ‘removed’.

There is a new website for St Bartholomews listing parish information and much more https://stbartholomew.co.uk/.

There is also a link to the men who died in WW1 in both Old and New Whittington.

The sentence seems to be a bit harsh for the theft of a shovel, I imagine it made the culprit think twice before doing it again!

Derbyshire Times Chesterfield Herald 23 November 1892

Posted on Old Chesterfield Pics, it shows Whittington Hill before some of the houses had been finished, Newbridge St is clearly visible as is the view to the Crooked Spire. Not sure of the year, possibly early 1900 as it featured in the Almanac for 1904.

T P Woods Almanac 1904

Taken from the Derby Mercury 4 December 1778. A guinea reward on top of any standard reward for informing on these two men must have seemed a great temptation to many people. Wonder if they were caught!